Cork and Gold foil are two super hot trends in craft this year. Today, I'm on a blog hop with the Tombow USA team and Die Cuts with a View (DCWV), sharing all things cork and gold! You probably came here from Britt Bass, but if you happened to stumble across my blog, go to the DCWV Blog to start!

We received a mix of gold foiled patterned paper, adhesive cork sheets, and a mini album from DCWV. Since the kraft colored papers and album were neutral like the cork, everything was wide open as far as color.

I decided to go with a beach themed mini scrapbook, adding in elements of coral and turquoise with items from my stash to complete the look.

This mini beach album was built with the DCWV Insta Kraft Album, a perfect size for Instagram photos! I'm planning to add photos of my niece and nephews from beach trips to this album and give it as a gift to my sister.

To make the inner pages of the book, I cut chipboard to 4.5″ wide by 5″ tall and covered it with patterned paper from the DCWV The Gilded Stack, using Tombow Mono Aqua Glue to permanently apply the paper to the chipboard. I also cut some of the 6×6 pages from the DCWV Cork Stack to 4.5″ x 5″ and adhered more patterned paper to the backs of those sheets. I used a Crop a Dile to punch holes in each page to match the binder rings inside of the DCWV Insta Kraft Album.

For extra storage, I cut 5″ x 9″ strips of paper from the DCWV The Gilded Stack and folded them in half to make a 4.5″ x 5″ page. I applied Tombow Mono Permanent Adhesive along the bottom and the open side of the folded paper “card” to seal them shut. I used a 2″ circle punch to punch a hole in the top, open ed of the pocket. Then I used the Crop a Dile to punch holes in each page to match the binder rings inside of the DCWV Insta Kraft Album. I cut some of the journal blocks from the DCWV The Gilded Stack apart and slipped them into the pockets for journaling.

I posted a sneak peek picture of this album on Instagram and everyone wanted to know how to make the crepe paper ruffle. It's easy!

Learn the crepe paper ruffle technique and see the album assembly and decorating from start to finish in this video:

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To create this album, you need some basic supplies from DCWV and Tombow.

I supplemented these with various baubles and embellishments from my stash. Decorating a mini album cover in this way gives it a fun, eclectic, and dimensional look while also using up some of your stash. I like using some of my most prized embellishments on mini album covers becuase then I can see them more often that if they were closed inside of a 12×12 scrapbook album. Also, bulky embellishments don't work well in traditional scrapbooks so a mini album like this DCWV Insta Kraft Album is a great place to use them.

It started with jewelry, beading, sewing, home decor, painting, basket weaving, pottery, and cross-stitch. Marry that to an entrepreneurial spirit & at 9 years old a girl is selling her wares at craft fairs as far as her parents and grandparents would drive her. These days, Jennifer enjoys crafts of all genres from sewing to scrapbooking to jewelry with a little dabbling in the mixed media world. Her style is approachable and she wants everyone who sees her work to feel that they too can embrace creativity and make their home and life beautiful.

Love this album Jennifer! I love all the details you added to make it extra special. It’s very obvious that you put a lot of thought and creativity into this! Your sister is going to love it (although I’m sure that’s no secret)!

Wow that is a cool album! Will have to come back and check out the blog spot of the room tour :) I have one of those library cabinets and I see you got one too will need to check back and see what you did with it :)

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